Posts by T&D India

CEA proposes monitoring of mini and microgrids

  Central Electricity Authority (CEA), as part of its comprehensive monitoring and planning activities, has proposed to begin monitoring of mini and microgrids. In a recent communication addressed to Principal Secretary (Energy), Additional Secretary (Energy) and Secretary (Power) of all Read more

Linxon wins mandate to build substations in Sweden

  Linxon has been chosen by Swedish distribution system operator, Vattenfall Eldistribution, to deliver 400kV, 220kV and 132kV substations in Hagby in northern Stockholm. With commissioning planned for spring 2025, the new contract involves building a brownfield 132kV station (comprising Read more

T&D India (January 2023) — New Technologies Special

  Click here to view the January 2023 edition of T&D India in PDF format   (This edition is a special on new technologies) Read more

EESL

EESL to install additional 1.6 crore LED street lights by 2024

  Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL) plans to install an additional 1.6 crore LED street lights under its Street Lighting National Programme (SLNP), by 2024. EESL, it may be mentioned, recently completed eight years of its energy efficiency lighting programmes Read more

LM Wind Power produces 50,000th wind turbine blade in India

  LM Wind Power, a GE Renewable Energy business, has completed the production of the 50,000th wind turbine blade in India. The blade was built at LM Wind Power’s manufacturing site in Vadodara, Gujarat, a release by LM Wind Power Read more

Schneider Electric appoints Manish Pant as Executive Vice President

  Schneider Electric has appointed Manish Pant as the new Executive Vice-President for its International Operations, effective November 1, 2022. Prior to the appointment, Manish Pant was President of East Asia & Japan Read more

CCEA approves investment for hydropower project in Himachal Pradesh

  The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the investment for a hydropower project in Himachal Pradesh. A government release said that an investment of Rs.2,614.51 crore has been approved for Central PSU SJVN’s 382-mw Sunni Dam hydropower Read more

Green Hydrogen | T&D India

Union Cabinet approves “National Green Hydrogen Mission”

  The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved National Green Hydrogen Mission. Outlay The initial outlay for the mission will be Rs.19,744 crore, including an outlay of Rs.17,490 crore for the SIGHT  (Strategic Interventions for Green Hydrogen Read more

CyanConnode IPA3 | T&D India

CyanConnode wins mandate for smart meter communications infrastructure in MP

  CyanConnode India has received an order to deploy communications infrastructure for nearly 10 lakh smart meters in Madhya Pradesh. Placed by Montecarlo, the order involves 9.83 lakh Omnimesh Modules to be deployed for smart meters in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. In Read more

President lays foundation stone of SJVN’s Bikaner solar project

  President of India, Ms Droupadi Murmu laid the foundation stone of SJVN’s 1,000-mw Bikaner solar power project at Jaipur, Rajasthan, on January 3, 2023. In a release, N. L. Sharma, CMD, SJVN, said that it was a matter of Read more